Awesome Pound Cake Recipe
Posted by Diva for Christ Ingredients: 3 cups cake flour 6 large eggs 1 pound butter 1 pound sugar 2 teaspoons of pure vanilla extract 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup buttermilk 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon baking powder Sift the flour, baking soda,and baking powder into a large mixing bowl. Stir in salt andthe sugar. I use a large spoon for this. Next I addthe butter. My grandmother would melt the butter in a pan over slow heat to make it blend easier. You can do this or just let the butter soften at room temperature. Add the eggs, whole. At this point I break out my mixer and begin mixing onslow. I slowly add my buttermilk, and then thevanilla extract. After it is thoroughly stirred,I turn the mixer up to medium for a few minutes,and then finally on high. If the mixture is a little thick I add just a touch more buttermilk. If you don'tmix things thoroughly you will have lumps that will form air bubbles in your mixture and leave holes in your finished cake. It was always a matter of pride not to have these air pocket holes in our cakes so we always made sure we got all of the lumps. In the pre-electric-mixer day that involved a lot of whippingthe cake by hand. We usually didn't have a hand cranked mixerthat worked well, so this involved a large mixing spoon to whip it. Some old timers even counted the numberof times they whipped the mixture - sort of made itfun and you didn't notice your arm tiring.Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Take your standard tube cake pan and oil it withbutter. Then lightly flour the oiled pan. Shake the excess flour from the pan. Pour the mix in, bake the cake for about 1 hourand twenty minutes. Keep looking at how your cakeis doing through the oven door but avoid openingthe door too much while it is cooking as I haveseen this, or jarring a cake, cause it to collapse.When you think it is done, do the toothpick test.Stick a wooden toothpick into one of the thickestparts of the cake. If it's dry when you pull it our, the cake is done.Allow the cake to cool 15 or 20 minutes in the pan.Then gently remove it, and stick it on your favoritedecorative cake plate. Sugar Syl says, Go on & touch someone with a little sugar --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Access the Recipes And More list archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/recipesandmore%40googlegroups.com/ Visit the group home page at: http://groups.google.com/group/RecipesAndMore -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
